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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Travis Shirk <travis@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel Locking Up
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:27:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19757.998533645@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:46:14 CST." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108220938390.1152-100000@puddy.travisshirk.net>

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:46:14 -0600 (MDT), 
Travis Shirk <travis@pobox.com> wrote:
>Ever since I upgraded to the 2.4.x (currently running 2.4.8)
>kernels, my machine has been locking up every other day
>or so.  Does anyone have any hints/tips for figuring out
>what is going on.

Kernel Debugger + serial console.
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86/.  man Documentation/kdb.mm.
Documentation/serial-console.txt.

Make sure that you enable the NMI watchdog, boot 2.4.x kernels with
"nmi_watchdog=1".  Unless the problem is a total hardware lockup, nmi
will trip after 5 seconds and drop into kdb.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-23  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-22 15:46 Kernel Locking Up Travis Shirk
2001-08-22 15:51 ` Tim Waugh
2001-08-22 15:52 ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-08-22 16:11   ` Tim Walberg
2001-08-22 16:01 ` Tim Walberg
2001-08-22 17:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-22 17:33   ` Tim Walberg
2001-08-22 22:23     ` Kevin Krieser
2001-08-22 21:46   ` Travis Shirk
2001-08-22 23:54 ` Ted Deppner
2001-08-23  1:01   ` Ben Greear
2001-08-23  2:27 ` Keith Owens [this message]

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